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Corbyn's party finally achieved its ambition to empower and politicise the working-class → Read More
Identity politics is just bullying made respectable by theorising → Read More
Labour's problems are the result of a founding myth that equates the party with virtuousness → Read More
Victoria Atkins' reasonable comments have been twisted into a cavalier disregard for the lives of human beings → Read More
The treatment of Kate Hoey and Frank Field reveal why Corbyn's behaviour goes unchecked → Read More
You can be a promoter of Jeremy Corbyn’s party, or a moderate. You cannot be both → Read More
In one of those “careful what you wish for” unintended consequences, anti-Brexit agitators may have unleashed constitutional reforms with a wider reach than dreary negotiations about the product labels and border control (how anyone gets worked up about leaving the EU is one of life’s big mysteries, for me). So angry were (at least) 123,821 … → Read More
The mural praised by Corbyn was an act of undeniable Jew-hatred → Read More
Share * The National Obesity Forum ignores choice in their explanation of poor diets * Obesity isn't about money. It's about agency * Freedom is worth a lot more than whatever floats Jamie Oliver’s crusading boat I’ve lost count of the number of stories about fat people which feature Mr Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum lecturing us that it’s all the fault of Conservative governments. He was… → Read More
Flat-sharing into your 40s is the new norm for professionals → Read More
We've unintentionally produced a generation who equate totalitarianism with 'being nice' → Read More
During the campaign which gave Blair his first landslide, a campaign whose inevitable outcome made me sick, there was one certainty from which I, and the 12 other Britons who didn’t vote for To-nee, could take comfort. Every claim made in the 1997 election by the Labour Party was scrupulously checked, pre-release, by a committee … → Read More
The uncomfortable question is this: has the push for expansion altered the nature of these institutions? If not, why do they tolerate jaw-dropping illiberality? → Read More
A third-rate leader like her - who can’t even run her schools properly - wants to make me a foreigner to my other half, and turn my home into "abroad". → Read More
As Ireland goes to the polls, Graeme Archer and Melanie McDonagh argue the cases for and against gay marriage → Read More
Don't fall for the SNP leader's charm – she only cares about destroying the Union → Read More
Their reign in Brighton shows why Syriza's British cousins aren't to be trusted with power → Read More
"Write more about Harlow," he said to me, as I left. "He" being Robert Halfon, MP for the New Town. "You used to write about us." As our fingers touched in farewell I felt a spike of melancholy: I am more fond of this man than it makes sense to disclose, though our overlap time [...] → Read More
Perhaps there is light at the end of the anti-capitalist tunnel. Mark Carney is using language sharp enough to penetrate the ears of even the most ostrich-like banker: "Bankers made enormous sums in the run-up to the crisis and were often well compensated after it hit. In turn, taxpayers picked up the tab for their [...] → Read More
What are we learning from the row over the statistical methods used by rock-star Leftish economist Thomas Piketty in his new "Tax everyone, everywhere" book? Well: nothing we've not learned before. The first and important point to make is that the FT has done us a service, by subjecting the book to the sort of [...] → Read More